Professional Development icon National Guidelines and Standards: Curriculum

Resources for National Guidelines and Standards: Curriculum from the K-12 Instructional Media Center...

  • Subject Matter Problem-solving and Concept Mapping

    The Interactive Multi-Media Exercises synthesizes creative problem-solving tasks in different subject topics at different grade levels...

    • Environmental Education Standards

      The National Environmental Education Standards project, initiated by the North American Association for Environmental Education, is attempting to answer the question What does it mean to be an environmentally literate citizen?...

      • National Council Teachers of Mathematics

        The Center for Children and Technology and Bank Street are offering an online seminar to bring the national standards in mathematics to life in the classroom (k-8)...

        • SCANS-Necessary Skills for the Workforce

          In 1991 the Secretary of Labor convened a commission (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) to set forth workplace skills for the 21st century...

          • Benchmarks for Science Literacy - Project 2061

            Teachers & administrators addressed: The terms and circumstances of human existence will change radically. Science, mathematics, and technology will cause it, shape it, respond to it. What should the substance and character of such education be?

            • National Academy of Science

              The National Science Education Standards under the auspices of the National Research Council was supported by the NSF, DOEducation, NASA, NIH, National Academy of Science and private foundations...

              • National Science Teachers Association - Content and Research

                The NSTA Scope, Sequence, and Coordination Project has produced several volumes to help teachers restructure their curricula to incorporate constructivism, spaced learning, and inquiry-based techniques.

                • High Performance Standards for Applied Learning

                  This framework (in-progress at the Learning Research and Development Center) looks to identify areas of competence essential for effective preparation for the changing nature of work and work organization.

                  • Technology: School Systems, Staff, Students

                    The National Study of School Evaluation, a non-profit founded in 1933 by accreditation commissions, has developed a set of indicators for facilitating learning goals for students to lead productive lives in the information-age society...

                    • TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

                      The goals of this set of standards are using English in social settings; using English for academic achievement; and using English in socially and culturally appropriate ways...

                      • All Educational Standards: Federal & State, Professional Orgs, & Subject Matter

                        There are a number of web sites for K-12 content standards and related tools offering educators a rich resource for designing standards-based units.

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